From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Leaner emacs for Android Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:20:50 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87bpm0hj9h.fsf@it.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251811314 3129 80.91.229.12 (1 Sep 2009 13:21:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 13:21:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 01 15:21:47 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MiTIw-0002Cy-6r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:21:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56406 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MiTIv-0005hK-DH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:21:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MiTIZ-0005hF-Qy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:21:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MiTIV-0005gk-8w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:21:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55347 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MiTIV-0005gh-6s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:21:19 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:43277) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MiTIU-0000mK-Qw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:21:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MiTIS-000222-34 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:21:16 +0200 Original-Received: from c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.24.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:21:16 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:21:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) In-Reply-To: <87bpm0hj9h.fsf@it.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67699 Archived-At: news@aleblanc.cotse.net wrote: > Hi all, > I have Emacs running on my google (G1/HTC Dream) phone which is very handy > (see here for details: > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsOnAndroid ). > > Currently it is using about 12MB on startup, but the RAM on the > phone is very limited. > I want to make it a bit leaner and faster. I suspect there are > plenty of elisp packages loaded by default that I don't need. > How do I find out what they are, and then stop them from loading > by default? Start Emacs with the -Q option, then evaluate `features' in the *scratch* buffer. Delete unwanted packages from loadup.el (M-x find-library RET loadup) and rebuild Emacs. > Any other advice on making it smaller/faster? First, make sure your site-start.el, default.el, and ~/.emacs files don't require/load any packages (use autoload instead). -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA